Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67330 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-22
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
This influential spiritual classic offers a presentation of Buddhist teachings accessible to seekers of any faith. Tibetan meditation master Chgyam Trungpa presents an overview of the spiritual path and warns of common mistakes along that path. He describes the problem he calls 'spiritual materialism' - strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques while deceiving ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually.

Customer Reviews

Life Changing
This is a must read for all serious students of the way. It highlights a deep and subtle pitfall in the form of projecting our normal goal oriented thinking onto the 'spiritual' path. Trungpa Rinpoche is as clear and indestructible as the dharma he teaches.

Die Laughing
Chogyam Trungpa, gives it to you straight no chaser. The first half of the book examines your motivations for embarking on the spiritual path. This no-nonsense master challenges us to understand that for most the path is too fraught with pain and isolation to embark upon.

Now if you can take this, and its relentless, maintain and cultivate your sense of humour, critical to Trungpa's teaching, then he willingly reveals the Buddhist vehicle for engaging on the spiritual path.

This is authentic Buddhism. Forget being good or bad, forget hoping to get anything, read Chogyam Trungpa and understand there is nothing to get and everything to attain.

Embrace this authentic practice, if your really fortunate you may die laughing!

a whole new world
this book has given me an enormous ammount of things to think about. i'd like to thank the author for writing it. and the publishing house for publishing it.